Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R)
We complete our daily profiles of the six main candidates running for governor by hearing from Republican Jeff Landry. Landry says if he’s elected governor he’ll spend every day of his administration fighting crime, improving education and building up the state’s workforce.
“If we don’t have a safe state, no one’s going to come. And if we don’t educate our kids, we don’t educate a workforce. And that means we don’t have a workforce so jobs don’t come.”
Landry grew up in St. Martinville. Served in the National Guard for eleven years and that included a tour in the Middle East during Desert Storm. He’s also worked as a police officer and a sheriff’s deputy.
Landry says he’ll be a law and order governor and his efforts as Attorney General the last eight years proves that.
“Expanding our drug courts, holding opioids manufacturers and distributors accountable, bringing money into the state to work on the opioid crisis. We have a track record of working with ways to reduce crime.”
Landry graduated from University of Louisiana at Lafayette and started his own oil and gas environmental service company. He also served as executive director of the St. Martin Parish Economic Development. Landry served in Congress prior to his election as A-G.
The son of a school teacher, Landry says he wants to improve education in public schools by letting the teachers teach…
“They settled with all kinds of unnecessary service hours. We made them out to be babysitters and social workers. We need social workers in our schools. Let’s get social workers in there. But let’s let teachers teach.”
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